Government advisor to become UK Music CEO

JAMIE NJOKU-GOODWIN, one of the Government’s most senior advisers, will succeed MICHAEL DUGHER as UK Music CEO. He will take over from TOM KIEHL, Acting CEO, who will continue as Deputy CEO and Director of Public Affairs. A keen musician, Njoku-Goodwin most recently worked as a special adviser to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and was previously a special adviser at DCMS. Before joining the Government he worked for the election strategist Sir Lynton Crosby and as a political adviser for the Conservative Party. A trained pianist and conductor, he now sits on the advisory boards of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera.